Oh joy, it’s Schadenfreude Day! IMF head Christine Lagarde is being investigated in connection with possible fraud for her role, as Finance Minister, in a convoluted series of events stemming from a €400 lawsuit which was decided in favour of… Read More ›
It’s not every day there’s a Statewide General Strike called by a faceless, headless group of Anonymous hacktivists rather than a political party or labour union. But it is Friday. This Friday, August 29 (handily, the last Friday before a… Read More ›
“The internet interprets censorship as damage and routes around it.” John Gilmore You’ll want this even if you never use it (and if you never use it, you’re a fool). FLOSS Manuals is a multilingual site for the dissemination and… Read More ›
Today’s loooooooong read from the dusty recesses of the distant digital past, which is to say 1993 which was 21 years ago GOD I’M OLD, comes to us from philosopher and mathematician Verner Vinge. In this seminal paper in the… Read More ›
Or both. Are there any readers out there old enough to remember the story of the original Too Smart and Too Big to Fail money manager, Nobel-prizewinner-packed Long Term Capital Management? It didn’t last in the long term at all, ironically…. Read More ›
When we were kids we had imaginary friends. Then we grew up and gave those childish things up in favour of following satirical Twitter accounts like respectable grown-ups. Let’s talk to one of them, shall we? Officer GoFuckYourself, on duty… Read More ›
Today we present a charming and informative Defcon talk from Gene Bransfield of Tenacity Solutions. The subject is the very straightforward “Weaponizing Your Pets” which is something I’m sure we have all wished to do from time to time, making… Read More ›
We’re familiar with the concept of ruthless, unstoppable jihadis laying waste to Western values, culture, and lives; it’s how the Pentagon gets its money. We’re less familiar with the concept of jihadi wannabes, particularly in the context of comedy. Meet… Read More ›
The knock at the door. The blinding lights, the shouted orders, the helmets, the uniforms, the guns, the confusion, the melee. The raid. When it’s all over, and the FBI is sifting through everything from your Friends list to your… Read More ›
The Anonymous Justice Operation OpFerguson came together and gelled in the time Michael Brown’s body was still lying on the ground after his shooting at the hands of Ferguson police officer Darren Wilson. Since that time the Twitter account has been one of… Read More ›
They’re BACK! UGNazi was, in 2012 a seemingly-invincible hacking crew with heavy trollish leanings (as you can tell from the nomenclature and the icon) once made up of JoshTheGod, CosmoTheGod, and Mr0sama. Their attacks targeted organizations and government departments which… Read More ›
Since the Saturday shooting of unarmed teenager Mike Brown at the hands of an as-yet-unnamed Ferguson police officer, operatives within Anonymous have been working to bring what they see as justice to Ferguson and its citizens. And, not incidentally, its… Read More ›
I like this guy; he stresses repeatedly that this is a long game, not a momentary blip. He specifically mentions a one, three or five year viewpoint on the Snowden case, in terms of negotiations to enable him to return… Read More ›
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